Padraigin1

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Hello, Padraigin1, and Welcome to Wikipedia!

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Padraigin1, good luck, and have fun. – Stinglehammer (talk) 16:42, 23 April 2016 (UTC)

Spy Week editathon

Hello again, Padraigin1!
Thank you so much for taking part in the Spy Week editathon. I hope that you enjoyed the day, and that we'll see you on Wiki again soon.

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If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. See you soon! Stinglehammer (talk) 22:15, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

Something I thought might interest you... To keep up to date about Wikimedia events happening throughout Scotland, to learn more about ScotWiki projects, or to publicise your own ScotWiki event or project, join the ScotWiki Mailing List!

Eileen Burgoyne

Hallo Patricia and welcome to editing. I wondered about creating this article myself a few days ago but settled on Ginette Jullian as my contribution to the Women in Red Spying event.

Just a note about references: you should aim to give a reference complete enough so that it would still be identifiable even if the web link breaks, site gets moved, or a reader has a printout of the article. I've upgraded your refs to make them clearer - especially the two newspaper articles, where we can add author, article title, and date. Similarly if ever you cite a book you've found online at Google books etc, you should write a reference just as if it was a printed book (ie author, title, publisher, isbn, chapter author/title if appropriate, page number(s), etc), with the URL as an added bonus.

I hope you've enjoyed making this first contribution to the encyclopedia and that you'll stay around and help build this amazing encyclopedia. Happy Editing! PamD 11:52, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

Wiki meet

Hi, you are cordially invited to our next ScotWiki meetup. The National Library of Scotland is extremely accessible via train for those travelling from outside the city, and via bus for Edinburgh residents. Its visitor centre offers food, drinks, and WiFi and should give us plenty of room to meet and have a chat after work!

Join the ScotWiki Mailing list! If you can't attend this meetup, but are interested in possibly attending other Wikimedia events in Scotland, or want to keep track of what's going on in the Scottish World of Wiki, join the ScotWiki Mailing List now!

Hopefully see you there, Stinglehammer (talk) 11:35, 2 May 2016 (UTC)